Note sure of the state of the art with respect to any of your questions, but you may find these links interesting: There's a project to simulate a nematode wor

Note sure of the state of the art with respect to any of your questions, but you may find these links interesting: There's a project to simulate a nematode worm - http://www.openworm.org/ http://www.openworm.org/ A bit more speculative but super interesting - http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf